Contracting out of the state pension system: The British experience of carrots and sticks

Rethinking the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Pension Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 19-55

  Blake, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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